Awakening warrior : revolution in the ethics of warfare / Timothy L. Challans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Challans, Timothy L., 1954-

Series:

SUNY series, ethics and the military profession

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military ethics.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 227 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Awakening Warrior argues for a revolution in the ethics of warfare for the American War Machine-those political and military institutions that engage the world with physical force. Timothy L. Challans focuses on the systemic, institutional level of morality rather than bemoaning the moral shortcomings of individuals. He asks: What are the limits of individual moral agency? What kind of responsibility do individuals have when considering institutional moral error? How is it that neutral or begin moral actions performed by individuals can have such catastrophic morally negative effects from a systemic perspective? Drawing upon and extending the ethical theories of Kant, Dewey, and Rawls, Challans makes the case for an original set of moral principles to guide ethical action on the battlefield.

Contents:

The unreflective life : the sleep of reason

The myth of moral progress

The pseudo-reflective life : battle sleep

Reflection deferred and moral error

Moral authority

Lost in the particulars

The vices of virtue

Is moral progress without reflection possible?

The semi-reflective life : instrumental means

Instrumental means and moral error

Inadequate decision procedures

A philosophical critical method

Disregarding ends : when means become ends

Are moral means possible?

The quasi-reflective life : inadequate ends

Inadequate ends and moral error

Disregarding means : when ends eclipse means

Presumed ends

Deliberating new ends

Are moral ends possible?

The fully reflective life : autonomy for automatons

Autonomous modes and methods of philosophical ethics

The ethical principles of war

From heteronomy to autonomy : reformulating moral intuitions

Moral autonomy : creating better understanding and motivation

Is moral autonomy possible?

The fully reflective life and military ethics

The possibility of moral progress.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.

ISBN:

079147125X

9780791471258

0791471268

9780791471265

OCLC:

70778277